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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 188186" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Wow! It seems that there is quite a SHARK-fest of discussion and responses here!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Very interesting!While my example probably wouldn't be *every* Vallorean legionnaire, they would constitute veteran members of each Legion, with various individuals sprinkled throughout the various units. Recruits of course, would be lower level, and have to "work up" to deserving such fine equipment. However, such equipment as the Waterskin of Plenty, and the Field-Pack of Wonder were created for mass issue to the legions. In addition, the Vallorean War Helm is standard issue as well to all Legionnaires. Such is the benefit of belonging to an enormous empire similar to Rome, except they have magic, and a unifying religion. Of course, I realise that my own campaign has taken a distinctly different path than many other campaigns. I have endeavored to apply the results of mass-developed magic, as typified in the D&D rules, and then honed it, and sharpened it under the foundational premise of the following:(I) What if there was an empire that had lasted for 2500 years?(II) Furthermore, this ancient empire is united by a single, common religion, from noble to peasant, all are expected to worship the Vallorean Pantheon.(III) This ancient, unified empire would then not only have access to magic, but it would make a state-backed policy of nurturing, expanding, and empowering magic at all levels of society.(IV) This ancient empire would then also enlist the aid of a state-approved religion, that would maximize it's own divine contributions to the greatest empire in the West, as the embodiment of the divine and holy guardians of the West, standing as a citadel of light against the forces of Darkness!(V) These factors, combined with not only immense natural wealth of many types, but also vast trading networks and sophisticated technology and culture which serves to fund and fuel ever spiraling levels of achievement in the empire, and also maintains a steady supply of immense wealth, from millions of citizens, flowing into the awesome machinery that supports the continued power of the Vallorean Empire.Thus, it is from these five premises that the Vallorean Empire can afford to equip many of its Legionnaires as described. As Mmadsen mentioned, Vallorea certainly isn't modelled on an impoverished Medieval European barony!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />None the less, it seems certain that 1st level characters are not seen by everyone to accurately reflect what a standard character of that profession should actually look like, and what type of capabilities that the character would have. I tend to think that 1st level Warriors, or even 1st level Fighters, for example, are the most helpless of recruits, fresh from basic training. I think that the more experienced members of a standing, professional army--as opposed to a hastily and locally raised militia--would be considerably more powerful than such 1st level characters.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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